Career & Growth Articles

Career & Growth Aug 3, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Writing Postmortems to Protect Your Team—Write Them to Fix Your Systems

Three years ago, our payment processing service went down for forty minutes. A junior developer had deployed a migration script that wasn't tested against production data volume. When I walked over to his desk after we'd recovered, he looked like he wanted to disappear. The postm...

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Career & Growth Aug 2, 2026 • 4 min read

Solo Founder Burnout Isn't About Loneliness—It's About Missing Your Rubber Duck

I built a SaaS product alone for eight months before I realized I was slowly going insane. Not in a dramatic way. More like the kind of insanity where you spend three hours debugging a problem that your friend would have spotted in ninety seconds, then convince yourself it was ch...

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Career & Growth Aug 1, 2026 • 4 min read

Stop Gaming Your GitHub Contribution Graph—But Keep the Automation

I spent a solid two hours last week staring at my GitHub profile, counting the green squares. Not because I'm vain (okay, maybe a little), but because I was genuinely wondering: is this what recruiters actually see first? The answer was humbling—they don't. They see your actual p...

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Career & Growth Jul 31, 2026 • 4 min read

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Career & Growth Jul 30, 2026 • 5 min read

From Logs to Insights: My First SIEM Deployment with Wazuh

Introduction When I first started learning about Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms, I understood the theory: collect logs from multiple systems, correlate events, and give de...

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Career & Growth Jul 29, 2026 • 1 min read

Why I'm Starting Before I'm Ready

Stop Waiting. Start Building. For a long time, I believed I needed to be "ready." Ready with a stronger portfolio. Ready with more skills. Ready with a clearer career plan. So I waited....

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Career & Growth Jul 28, 2026 • 5 min read

Soft Skills Summarize Part 2

Why is this book unlike any other book you've read? The author begins the first chapter with this question, saying that most books related to software development are about software develop...

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Career & Growth Jul 27, 2026 • 7 min read

The First 90 Days of Learning IT

A realistic 12-week structure that turns enthusiasm into visible proof. The problem You are motivated now, but motivation fades, and without a structure the first three months of learning...

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Career & Growth Jul 26, 2026 • 5 min read

The junior engineer is not disappearing

You have probably seen the claim by now: AI is coming for the junior engineer first, so if you are early in your career, or trying to become one, the timing looks bad. If you are a senior who has repe...

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Career & Growth Jul 25, 2026 • 5 min read

Stop Treating Your Career Like a Deployment Pipeline

I had a conversation with a senior engineer last month who told me something that stuck: "I like my job, but I'm starting to wonder if I'm actually growing anymore." Then he paused and added, "But I'm not desperate enough to go through five rounds of interviews to find out."

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